(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday swiftly denied claims from anonymous sources that he is currently planning to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2028.
DeSantis, whose term as governor is set to end on Jan. 5, 2027, has long been viewed as a potential contender for...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Miller is one of Trump’s closest and longest-serving advisers, joining his long-shot 2016 presidential campaign as a speechwriter....
(Misty Castile, The Center Square) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Wednesday that Republicans could spend years recovering from their midterm election losses, with consequences for President Donald Trump’s ability to secure approval of judicial and Cabinet nominees.
Speaking at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, the outgoing Republican governor described the...
(Headline USA) Florida authorities said two people were dead, including a suspect, after witnesses reported a shooting Wednesday at Citibank’s sprawling business complex that employs thousands in the Tampa area.
More than 360 deputies swarmed the campus, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. TV video showed long lines of workers...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has escalated its investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, issuing a letter to a prominent Democratic attorney in Washington and others that they may be targets of the criminal inquiry, two people familiar with the matter...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Tucker Carlson claimed in a post on X on Sunday night that the Trump administration is considering launching a nuclear strike targeting Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran and that the president is expected to make a decision by November 7.
“Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin...
(Headline USA) A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway. Everyone on board was killed, the nation's transportation secretary said.
Video recorded by people inside their cars captured...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Aaron Reitz and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are pushing back against a Harris County indictment of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Reitz said no federal charges would be brought.
Democrat Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called on Jared Kushner to immediately remove himself from Middle East and Ukraine negotiations.
In a letter sent Thursday, Raskin pointed to fresh reports that Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, tapped secret slush...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On July 12, 2024, the FBI arrested a man for participating in an Iranian plot to purportedly assassinate U.S. officials, including Donald Trump. The man, Asif Merchant, had earlier in the year met with two undercover FBI agents, and tried hiring them as “hitmen.”
At first,...
(Headline USA) A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, the latest punishment in a sprawling scheme to collect millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming to have fed needy children.
The depth...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Secret bank accounts, Gulf rulers, and private fortunes sit at the center of a contested new account of Jared Kushner’s diplomacy. Reviewing Matthew Cole’s “Princes and Thieves” for the New York Times, Fintan O’Toole argues that its allegations warrant congressional investigation, while emphasizing that the...